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[E1pix]

Been in that place too many times to count and always had a great time, although I had my 4-month-old 1981 VW Scirocco GT stolen while I was once there. This photo is inside with fellow Autosport forum mates paul b, Victor,  Jp and B², taken on Friday "Carb Day" May 25, 2018.

Sorry about the car...

If it makes you feel better, I scrapped it but really enjoyed the Blaupunkt.

[B Squared]

Sorry about the car...

If it makes you feel better, I scrapped it but really enjoyed the Blaupunkt.

The police found it nearly six months after the incident. The engine was gone, it was then further stripped and burnt. I always imagined it was some racer that stole it and the engine ended up in a Super Vee and I likely saw it on track. I'm really glad that it was you that got to enjoy it brother! 

[Vitesse2]

Surprisingly The Mason Arms, South Leigh - whose adverts were fondly recalled by both the late Pete Fenelon and the late David Beard in an old Motor Sport thread - has never been mentioned in this topic.

 

Its landlord in its heyday as a haunt of racing folk, Gerry Stonhill, died on July 6th.

[john aston]

I read the obit in The Times this morning. Judged by the Motor Sport adverts (not so fondly recalled by me ) it was a pub I'd only have chosen to enter at gunpoint . Bet there was a high pink trouser count ? 

[Rupertlt1]

Au contraire, we need this thread more than ever to remind us of good times in the past.

Back in the eighties the bar to see and be seen in Macau, at Grand Prix time, was the the Guia Bar at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, close to the startline.

Henri's Galley, in the Avenida da Republica, was a good lunch spot.

Hotel Bela Vista, 8 RUA DO COMMENDADOR KOU HO MENG, Macau. Throwback colonial hotel with glacial service. Dinner on the balcony. Now the Portuguese Consulate.
I recall partying at the Lisboa Hotel & Casino, where Teddy Yip used to hold court. Later there were evening gigs outdoors on Taipa Island.
Club Militar, 975 Avenida da Praia Grande, excellent wine buffet.

As development exploded in the Portuguese enclave racing folk spread out to the new hotels and the social side lost focus.

For a while Oskars Bar at the Holiday Inn held sway for journos, team managers, hangers-on, barflies etc.

There was the splendid Pizzeria Toscana in the paddock at the races, later turfed as the organisers got greedy.
Old address: Edificio de Apoio do Grande Prémio de Macau, 1^o Andar — Avenida da Amizada em Frente do Novo Maritimo, Macau.

 

RGDS RLT 

 

Not everybody was happy when the Lisboa Hotel opened in 1970:

The opening of the Hotel Lisboa monstrosity

seems to have been of very doubtful benefit to the

average Macau visitor. A general rise in prices and the

loss of the best staff from other hotels seem to be

the most obvious results. To competitors there is an

additional and most "substantial" disadvantage. Statue

corner was originally bordered by sweet nothing; later

by a none too sturdy wooden fence; but now by the

Lisboa's ornate but unrelenting wall—perfectly posi-

tioned to catch the unwary.

 

There can't be many examples of a hotel being built literally trackside?

 

After a while the name Statue corner, on the Guia circuit, was lost to history, 

it became Lisboa bend. Why was it called Statue corner in the first place? 

According to Dr Philip Newsome "named after the nearby monument to the nineteenth-

century Governor Almares." Where is it I wonder? Could this be the answer?

https://equestrianst...al-ferreira-do/

 

Another hotel, the Hotel Riviera, was where much of the planning for the first event took place

and the launch press conference was held in 1954. AFAIK still there.

 

RGDS RLT 

Edited by Rupertlt1, 19 September 2023 - 01:21.